"I hate to say this, one chicken died. About a month before the election Hillary died," McAuliffe responded. "We've got Hillary Jr. now. She is bright and fluffy and making a lot of noise and healthy as an ox."

Nate Silver just emailed me to say that if he'd had this information, he would have predicted the election differently. "My model actually weights a lot on chickens," the pencil-necked goon explained. "I mean, my models put a scary amount of weight on chicken-related data. I don't do pie graphs. I do chicken pot pie graphs. Sometimes I worry about myself. Cluck!"